social ladder

With couples dating and marrying up and down the social ladder, new questions arise.

If "friend" is used, the social ladder covered by that word, used in that sense, has many rounds.

For a time, when the habit of reading newspapers descended the social ladder, the coffee house acquired a new lease of life.

Ah, Ona, the social ladder reaches high, but it does not scale the regions where your poor soul could find comfort now.

The noble has gone down on the social ladder, and the roturier has gone up; the one descends as the other rises.

Profusion at the top of the social ladder means poverty at the bottom.